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Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ...   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, engraver
Allardice, S. (Samuel), engraver
Barker, W. (William), fl. 1795-1803, engraver
Bowes, Joseph, engraver
Clarke, Thomas, engraver, engraver
Creed, William, engraver
Jones, Benjamin, fl. 1798-1815, engraver
Lawson, A. (Alexander), 1773-1846, engraver
Ralph, William, engraver
Scot, Robert, 1744?-1823, engraver
Shallus, Francis, engraver
Smither, James, 1741-1797, engraver
Thackara, James, 1767-1848, engraver
Trenchard, James, b. 1747, engraver
Vallance, J. (John), 1770-1823, engraver
Weston, Henry W., engraver
Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL
Boston Public Library) BRL John Adams Library
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Title
Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ...
Volume 5
Publisher
Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, south second street
Description
First American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the preface to the English edition. Based on the third edition of the Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798
4 vol. supplement issued in 1803: Supplement to the Encyclopaedia, or Dictionary of arts, sciences and miscellaneous literature ... Illustrated with copperplates ... Philadelphia : Printed by Budd and Bartran for Thomas Dobson ..
For history and description of this edition, see Charles Evans, American bibliography, v. 8 (1916) p. 27-28, no. 22486
Printed marginalia
Includes appendix
All vols. include instructions to the printer for placing plates
V. 10 and v. 12 have unopened pages
Tables from v. 10 inserted at end of v. 11 by publisher
Errata on p. 704 of part 1 of supplement
Errata on p. [800] of v. 16
John Adams Library copy, v. 1, front of cover, inscribed: "His Excellency the Vice President of the United States."
John Adams Library copy, v. 2, back of cover, inscribed: "President."
John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library
Evans
Rink, E. Technical Americana
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Language English
Publication date 1798
publication_date QS:P577,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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IA Collections: johnadamsBPL; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
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encyclopaediaord05akin
Authority file  OCLC: 1044627415
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Internet Archive identifier: encyclopaediaord05akin
https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediaord05akin/encyclopaediaord05akin.pdf

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